Business leaders seek capabilities to drive breakthroughs in revenue growth, organizational performance, customer loyalty and innovation. SaaS, social, collaboration, mobile and intelligence technologies have significant impacts and in many cases business leaders will make these investments without IT knowledge or involvement.
We will focus on how various factors influence the phenomenon of Rogue IT, what that means to the CIO and strategies for thinking and acting in this "new normal".

3/27/2012

When:

Tuesday, March 27, 2012From 5:30pm to 8:00pm

Where:

The Skyline Club2000 Town CenterSouthfield, Michigan 48075United States

Business
leaders are seeking capabilities that will drive breakthroughs in revenue
growth, organizational performance, customer loyalty and innovation. SaaS,
social, collaboration, mobile and intelligence technologies will have
significant impacts and in many cases business leaders will make these
investments without IT knowledge or
involvement.

This
session will cover emerging technologies, how they are being introduced into
the organization, their effect on the application portfolio and the way to
balance new and legacy investments.

How will applications technology
change through 2020?

How can emerging applications
technology be tied to business value?

What should be done to balance
investments in legacy, current and emerging technology?

Our
focus throughout the conversation will be on how these factors influence the
phenomenon of Rogue IT, what that means to the CIO and strategies for thinking
and acting in this "new normal".

About the Facilitator:
Dennis Gaughan is a managing VP within the Enterprise Software research team,
focusing on enterprise applications. His research focus is on the enabling
technologies that support those enterprise applications, including application integration
and B2B infrastructure.

Mr.
Gaughan started his career in IT organizations working both in infrastructure
and operations and application development, moving to more senior leadership
positions. He started with AMR as the company's first director of IT, building
a strategy and staff to support a high-growth company. Mr. Gaughan moved from
IT into the research organization, where he advised clients on topics from IT strategy
and governance practices to enabling technologies such as SOA and RFID. He also
worked within IBM SWG, doing product strategy and management for the Tivoli Security
portfolio.